Word: users
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact, the novel is getting more user-friendly in general. Fun and profundity are no longer mutually exclusive. Humor is back: Smith and Shteyngart are satirists, Foer and Mitchell are wits. Likewise, vigorous, plotty storytelling is in vogue again. For much of the 20th century the border between high and low fiction was diligently policed. Now there's an attractive trend toward hybridizing high and low, grafting the brilliant verbal intelligence of high literature onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction. "That used to be a real novelty act, or something that was done with kid gloves or with...
...SEDARIS Amy Sedaris is "boozer, user and loser" Jerri Blank in Strangers with Candy, the film version of her Comedy Central show...
...understand why kids flock to these sites and how they can be more dangerous than old-school chat rooms. The reason: in chat rooms, predators have to engage in conversation to get to know people. But on sites like MySpace, they can access gobs of information by reading users' profiles, which tend to include photos as well as blog entries and bantering with friends. "It's totally addictive," Hannah Kranz, 16, says of MySpace. "My cousin gave it up for Lent." Kranz, who lives in Ferndale, Wash., says she interacts only with users she already knows offline and feels secure...
...founder; his day-to-day responsibilities running the software giant, as of July 2008; in Redmond, Washington. The move will leave executives Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie, whom Gates named to succeed him as chief software architect, to face challenges from competitors such as Google that provide user-friendly software over the Internet. Gates, a 2005 TIME Person of the Year, said he plans to focus more on philanthropic work...
...chairman and co-founder; his day-to-day responsibilities running the software giant, as of July 2008; in Redmond, Wash. The move will leave executives Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie, whom Gates named to succeed him as chief software architect, to face challenges from competitors like Google that provide user-friendly software over the Internet. Gates, a 2005 TIME Person of the Year, said he plans to focus more on his philanthropic work...